Matt Fesnak has created this site as a way to show some of the work that he has done throughout his young career in librarianship and academia

Tag: information design

Working at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, I fixed issues with the “IR/HR Websites” page of the CIRHR library website. This included addressing issues with the code for fonts and paragraph spacing, replacing many dead links, and adding new content. I performed these tasks using the Drupal content management system, which the website is based on. Additionally, I reformatted some of the content on the main page of the CIRHR library website, and added an Instagram widget.

Additionally, I reformatted and added content to some of the CIRHR’s ResearchGuides (aka libguides). These pages have thousands of visits every year, and were designed to help students have a starting point for their essays, help researchers gain a general understanding of a topic, and give faculty and past students a refresher. They include a mix of print and online materials.

I worked on intranet design projects through courses like INF 2176H Information Management In Organizations. One specific intranet that I worked on was for the Tollkeeper’s Cottage Archive, and it was designed for a community history project of the archive that was mostly volunteer-run, and needed a way to organize schedules, inform the multiple volunteers on the work of the other volunteers and the decisions of the board members, and train new volunteers.

At the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources Library, I worked on the pages for all of the faculty on the library’s Focus On Research website. Focus on Research is a site that is meant to show off the publication and presentation histories of the faculty at the University of Toronto, similar to the site academia.edu/, but also connects to the University of Toronto library catalogue to assist researchers looking to access publications. My work included going through hundreds of existing records to make corrections, and adding hundreds of missing entries. Each work is given a web page, and loosely follows APA citation formatting. This work required the kind of attention to detail similar to cataloguing, working independently, and working with faculty. As a result of my work, the Industrial Relations and Human Resources group is one of the top five groups on the website, despite having much less faculty than the larger groups ahead of it.

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